Twice The Trouble

Chapter 44: Into Pieces

Stacy

The weekend flew by like a clock out the window--which meant Monday has returned.

Lunchtime.

I strutted out of my classroom and was welcomed by a tall, black-haired, brown-eyed male.

My sky blue eyes raked over his appearance: His white, long-sleeved polo and blue necktie were immaculately crease-free, as were his blue slacks and his black shoes were pristine. I trailed my appraising gaze back up to his nervous face and noted that he neatly brushed his black hair.

"Lucas De Los Reyes," I stated upon seeing him. He carried a bouquet of red flowers in his arms.

He gave me a timid smile and took one step forward. "Stacy."

"Yes?" I asked him, tilting my head to the side.

"These are for you," he told me as he handed the lovely stargazers into my arms.

I eyed him suspiciously before accepting the bouquet. "Thank you."

"Uh.. I've been thinking, for the past.. few days--weeks, actually. I waited until it was an appropriate time to ask you this.." Lucas rubbed his nape and looked at me. "May I court you?"

I didn't respond for a while.

My lingering silence caught his attention and made his brown eyes lock onto my icy blue ones.

I rustled the stargazers at him. "I don't suppose these flowers are a bribe for me to say yes?"

"No!" He frantically exclaimed. "They're not."

"I'm only joshing you, Lucas," I teased him.

"Oh.." His shoulders drooped, the tension seeping away from him.

I flashed him a smile and said: "Yes. You may court me."

"Yes?" His head jerked up in alarm. "Did you say 'Yes'?"

I nodded my head as I wrapped my arms around my bouquet of stargazers.

A wide smile stretched Lucas' mouth. "Thank you, Stacy."

Sophia

When Stacy busied herself sniffing her stargazers, Lucas excitedly gave me a thumbs-up sign.

I could hear my heart shattering as I watched them from afar.

They both looked so happy.

Everything will be fine, I thought as I turned my back on them. I'll be fine.

I was about to drown my sorrows in the campus library when someone cleared his throat.

My palm froze on the glass door. I craned my head left and right in search of the voice's owner.

"It hurts, doesn't it?" he called out.

I spotted a tall guy with dark blond hair, amber eyes, and a tormented smile on his face.

"Liam.." I haven't seen him nor talked to him in a long time since I rejected him for good.

The lanky blond male took idle steps towards me and ceased a few meters away from me.

"How are you, Sophia?"

My jaw quivered as I met his somber eyes. "Whatever happened to 'Princess'?"

"She's still here," he answered, pointing at his heart. "But I'm trying to move on from her."

I tore my gaze away from his and brokenly pushed open the library door. "Sophia, wait."

"What do you want, Liam?" I choked on my words.

"Liam? Whatever happened to 'Li'?" he asked me, copying my earlier question.

I sent him a morose smile.  "I hurt him." I then went inside the cold library, hoping to mend my wounded heart with books, the same way I tried to forget about my first heartbreak.